I learnt a long while ago when plex initially forced the whole discover stuff on us that if you care about privacy you NEED to 1) monitor this forum, 2) keep a very close eye on ALL release notes and 3) read very carefully ALL announcements from plex.
Pretty much everything being raised on this thread today I raised over a week ago when this new social rubbish was announced. Plex will opt you in, that’s the direction from their leadership and they make it hard to disable by putting stuff all over the place rather than in one location. You have email preferences, online media sources, account settings and now also profile settings.
BTW, why do I even have a profile? I don’t want one, I did not agree to plex creating one for me and I cannot even delete it. Best I can do is make some of it private (visibility can’t be set to private, friends only which I don’t like). I have an account, I don’t want a profile.
Also… be careful with sync watch/rating. That CANNOT be disabled, only set inactive which is a very different thing. If it was active at any point in time it will have sent all your watch and rating data to plex and setting this to inactive to my knowledge does not delete it. They have it!
Also, folks… I DON’T BLAME THE PLEX TEAM, especially those on the forum trying to help folks with this. This is a management and company direction problem and I do hope it changes.
